Nicknaming Assets  | I'm getting so much stuff in my Assets panel that I can no longer remember what's what. Is there an easy way to keep things straight? |
One of the more useful features of the Favorites list is the ability it gives you to nickname your assets. Instead of assets appearing in the list as " http://www.pendragn.com ," you can nickname the asset as "Jenn's Site," which will hopefully jog your memory more easily. To change an asset's nickname, be certain you're in the Favorites view, select the asset, and then select Edit Nickname from the context menu. You can also edit the Nickname by single-clicking the current nickname twice. After entering the nickname, press (Return) [Enter] or click elsewhere in the Assets panel. The actual filename, color , or URL will still appear in the Value column of the Favorites list, and the preview display will remain unchanged. Sliced Images and the Assets Panel How can I have more control over individual images I'm working with while constructing a table? The display on the Assets panel is helpful when you're piecing a sliced image back into a table, particularly if you forgot to give each slice a unique name in your graphics application. Unlike selecting image files from the Insert Image dialog box or dragging from the Site panel at random, the Assets panel displays each image, so you can drag and drop the pieces into the table like a puzzle. Re-creating Library Items I deleted a Library item and then realized I need it again. What can I do? If you accidentally delete a Library item, your only recourse is to re-create it from one of its instances in a document. To do this, select an instance of the Library item and click the Recreate button in the Property inspector. If there aren't any instances of the Library item in your site ”which could occur if you made the original instance editable and either didn't create any other instances or made all of those editable, as well ”you'll need to create a new Library item from scratch. HTML Comments and Design Notes Which is better, HTML comments or Design Notes? Which do you prefer? Either HTML comments or Design Notes can provide useful information about a site and its various assets. Either way is a perfectly legitimate course. However, if you determine that you need to communicate information mostly with co-workers ” all of whom are using Dreamweaver ”then the Design Note method might be the better option because it reduces your overhead. However, if you do use comments, you can use the Non-Dreamweaver HTML Comments command when cleaning up your HTML or XHTML. If you've used comments instead of Design Notes to communicate with other members of the development team or as reminders to yourself, this command removes all these comments. However, Design Notes are left intact. Comments might no longer be useful after the page is complete and might unnecessarily pad a page, thus increasing its download time. Design Notes do not affect a page's download time. Adding Dictionary Terms This spell-checker is driving me nuts! None of the words that come up as wrong are really misspelled . How can I get around this? If you develop sites that are specific to a particular field, such as psychology or engineering, you can seed the dictionary by creating a document with a list of correctly spelled terms. Run the spell-checker and as it highlights each term , use the Add to Personal button to add them to the dictionary. One very cool fact: The dictionary isn't site specific, so words you enter into the dictionary in one site are available in other sites. | 